Facebook Doesn’t Know What It’s Doing With your Data

CYBER

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Tech News, News & Politics, Technology, News

4 • 645 Ratings

🗓️ 5 May 2022

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Facebook’s biggest strength is quickly becoming its largest headache. For years, Facebook has survived by tracking every little thing its users do and selling that on to everyone. But now a slew of regulations across the globe are looking to crack down on the social media site and, according to leaked documents, Facebook has no idea how to get compliant. Worse, the social media giant has no idea where any given piece of data goes once it enters its ecosystem.

On this episode of Cyber, we sit down with Motherboard Senior Staff Writer Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai to talk about the regulation “tsunami” facing the social media site.

Stories discussed in this episode:

Facebook Doesn’t Know What It Does With Your Data, Or Where It Goes: Leaked Document

Lawmakers Call For Better Facebook User Data Oversight

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0:00.0	Tadmin's got the code it's going to launch.
0:11.2	It's a unique system.
0:13.6	I know this.
0:15.6	It's how all the files of the whole park.
0:17.8	It tells you everything.
0:19.6	Sir, he's uploading the virus.
0:22.3	Eagle One, the package is being delivered.
0:25.7	Hello out there on the internet. I'm Matthew Galt, and this is Cyber.
0:30.0	Facebook's biggest strength is quickly becoming its largest headache.
0:34.8	For years, Facebook has survived by tracking every little thing its users do
0:38.9	and then selling that on to, well, anyone who's got the cash. But now, a new slew of
0:45.1	regulations across the globe are looking to crack down on the social media site, and, according to
0:49.8	leaked documents, Facebook has no idea how to get compliant. Worse, a social media giant has no idea where any given piece of data goes once it enters its ecosystem.
1:01.3	With me today is the motherboard senior staff writer who broke the story.
1:05.0	Lorenzo Franceschi Biccarai, sir, thank you once again for coming on to cyber and walking us through one of your scoops.
1:11.9	It's been a while. Thanks for having me.
1:14.2	Absolutely.
1:15.1	Okay, so Facebook is facing a pretty big problem right now.
1:20.5	What's going on exactly?
1:23.7	Yeah, so the company has been for a few years now under the microscope of regulators,
1:31.3	both in the US, Europe and really everywhere around the world.
1:36.0	You know, you can probably trace this back to the Cambridge and Olyica scandal.
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